26 Jun
2007
26 Jun
'07
6:06 p.m.
On Jun 26, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Chris M wrote:
Well, given an appropriate interface. The RX01/RX02 controller<-
which is in
turn connected to a small x86 SBC
running Linux to give
the 8/m a disk subsystem.
Barring Cflash or similar storage mediums, I guess
you could use a small x86 SBC to host some storage for
virtually anything. drive interface is relatively simple, which is what
makes a scheme
like Chuck's practical...and even that, I'm sure, took a
good bit of
effort to work out. Doing other types of interfaces would involve a
lot more work.
Serially connecting would rot though...
Yeah, kinda.
Are there still reasonably priced SBCs out there,
and
would that generally provide a simpler solution then
flash card or even USB style solutions?
They're all over eBay, and they're cheap. The one I'm using to
provide storage for this 8/m is a 433MHz Celeron with 128MB of RAM,
and even that is overkill. I got this one from work many years ago,
but they can be had very cheaply nowadays, because everyone knows a
PC with a clock rate of less than 3GHz is incapable of doing useful
work.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL